Final 2014 NCBWA College Baseball Poll

The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) has released its final Division One poll for the 2014 season. Vanderbilt sits atop the final rankings after taking two of three games in the best-of-three College World Series Finals in Omaha, Neb.

Vanderbilt’s title ends a two-year run by Pac-12 Conference powers Arizona and UCLA. Vandy is the fourth SEC member in history to take the crown along with LSU, South Carolina and Georgia.

Virginia led the NCBWA polls for a season-high eight weeks while Vandy achieved its first-ever No. 1 ranking by the group. Louisiana-Lafayette was ranked No. 1 on May 26 and June 3 for the initial time in school history. Oregon State (four weeks – Feb. 17, May 5-12-19), Florida State (March 17), South Carolina (March 10), and Cal State Fullerton (preseason No. 1) were prior top vote recipients for the 18 surveys in 2014. This tops last season’s five total teams at No. 1 during the January-June NCBWA compilations with seven different top-ranked schools holding that distinction.

The preseason 2015 NCBWA DI Top 35 poll will be released in January 2015 after the 17th annual pre-’15 NCBWA All-America team is denoted in December 2014.